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Monday.
Police charged Tr acy Miles
Goodson, 39, with first- and
second-degree murder in the
death of Noel Njoku, 48, of
Springdale.
Njoku was out delivering
food Aug. 12 in the 3700 block
of Lottsford Vista Road when
he was fatally shot, according
to an initial investigation,
police said. Officers responded
to the scene about 12:20 a.m.
and found Njoku with gunshot
wounds inside a car. He later
died at a hospital, police said.
Investigators believe Njoku
was shot during a robbery and
that the two did not know each
other, police said.
Court documents did not list
an attorney for Goodson, who
is being held without bond.
— Jasmine HiltonTeen wanted in
shooting is chargedA Maryland teenager wanted
in a shooting in which one
person was killed and another
person was wounded has been
apprehended in Florida, a
police department said
Tuesday.
The Hagerstown Police
Department said in a news
release that Gage John Coles,
17, is being charged as an adult
in the death of John Anthony
Leonard IV, 27. Coles is also
charged in the shooting of
Jaseye Stephens, 22. Both
shooting victims are from
Hagerstown, the news release
said.
The shootings occurred on
Saturday.
According to police, Coles
was taken into custody about
8 a.m. Tuesday in Manatee
County, Fla., and is being held
there to await an extradition
hearing. Multiple charges were
filed against Coles, including
first- and second-degree
murder, and reckless
endangerment, police said.
Police said Leonard died at
the hospital after being shot
twice, and Stephens was shot in
his femoral artery. Officers
applied a tourniquet to keep
Stephens alive, the news
release said.
While Coles has been
apprehended, police say the
investigation into the shootings
continues.
— Associated PressTHE DISTRICTMotorcyclist killed
in bus collisionOne person was killed
Monday in a collision in
Southeast Washington between
a motorcycle and a Metrobus,
authorities said.
Police identified the man as
Ronnie Lyons, 30, of Southeast.
The bus operator was taken to
a hospital with injuries that
were not life-threatening, a
Metro spokeswoman said.
No injuries to bus
passengers were reported,
Metro spokeswoman Sherri Ly
said.
The crash occurred about
12:10 p.m. in the 800 block of
Southern Avenue SE, said
Officer Sean Hickman, a D.C.
police spokesman.
— Martin WeilMARYLANDLandover man is
arrested in s layingPolice have arrested a man
from Landover in connection
with a shooting earlier this
month.
On Oct. 6, officers were
called to the 72 00 block of
Landover Road in the
Landover area for the report of
a shooting, Prince George’s
County police said. They found
Matthew Grant Hayes, 37, of
Hyattsville, outside about 7:15
p.m.
Authorities took Hayes to a
hospital where he was
pronounced dead, police said.
Police have arrested and
charged Curtis James Lay, 48,
of Landover in the shooting.
Lay faces charges of first- and
second-degree murder and is
being held without bond,
according to authorities.
Police said the men knew
each other and that the
shooting happened during a
fight between the two.
— Clarence Williams
and Dana HedgpethMan charged in fatal
shooting of driverA Mitchellville man was
arrested in the August fatal
shooting of a DoorDash
delivery driver, Prince George’s
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washingtonpost.com/local/lotteryLOTTERIESBY KARINA ELWOODThe two major-party candi-
dates in Virginia’s governor’s race
have raised a record amount of
money as they battle for the Exec-
utive Mansion, reaching a com-
bined t otal o f more than $115 mil-
lion in contributions, according to
the latest round of campaign fi-
nance filings.
In the final filing before Elec-
tion Day on Tuesday, Democrat
Terry McAuliffe and Republican
Glenn Youngkin were neck-and-
neck in total fundraising through
mid-October, with Youngkin’s
campaign raising a total of
$57.7 million and McAuliffe at
$57. 3 million.
Fundraising between Young-
kin, a multimillionaire former pri-
vate-equity executive, and McAu-
liffe, who served as governor from
20 14 t o 2018, has vastly surpassed
that in the governor’s race four
years ago. At the same point in
20 17, Gov. R alph Northam (D) and
Republican competitor Ed
Gillespie collectively raised
$64.7 million, according to the
nonpartisan Virginia Public Ac-
cess Project (VPAP).
Mark J. Rozell, dean of the
Schar School of Policy and Gov-
ernment at G eorge Mason U niver-
sity, said it makes sense that the
fundraising has been so high be-
cause of the stakes in the race. He
noted that, given the tight polling
and polarized state of politics,
there is a really small margin of
undecided voters at this point in
the race.
Fundraising can help win that
small margin, and drive their re-
spective bases to the polls.
“So much money is chasing so
few voters,” Rozell said. “They’re
spending a hundred million dol-
lars for a few percentage points.”
The latest filing, which details
contributions and expenditures
from Oct. 1 to 21, showed Young-
kin surpassing McAuliffe in fund-
raising during the first weeks of
the month, bringing in $15.4 mil-
lion while the Democrat raised
$12.9 million.
But, according to an analysis by
VPAP, $3.5 million of Youngkin’s
October totals came from h is own
pocket a s a personal loan.
Youngkin, who has never held
elective office, has been in a heat-
ed and close race with McAuliffe
and has used his ability to person-
ally front millions of dollars to run
his campaign. According to VPAP,
Youngkin has lent about $20 mil-
lion this year to his campaign and
his Virginia Wins PAC.
Younkin’s top donor — other
than his own personal donation in
October — continued to be the
political action committee arm of
the Republican Governors Associ-
ation, which g ave $4.6 million.
Other notable top donors to the
Republican this reporting period
include $125,000 from Linda Mc-
Mahon, who headed the Small
Business Administration under
President Donald Tr ump, and
$100,000 from Mark J. Kington,
who sits on the Dominion Energy
board o f directors.
McAuliffe’s t op donation for the
period came from People for the
American Way, with a $500,000
contribution. McAuliffe contin-
ued to receive large donations
from labor unions and political
groups, such a s another $400,000from Everytown for Gun Safety
and $250,000 from the Working
for Working A mericans PAC.
According to VPAP, McAuliffe
also received donations from a
handful of casino companies, in-
cluding $50,000 from Accel En-
tertainment Gaming, $50,000
from Caesars Entertainment and
$50,000 from J&J Ventures Gam-
ing. In 2020, the General Assem-
bly passed a measure legalizing
casinos in a handful of cities in the
state. McAuliffe also got $50,000
from DoorDash, the mobile food
delivery service.
Both candidates have also es-
tablished their own PACs to re-
ceive d onations over the course of
the race. Youngkin’s V irginia Wins
PAC has earned just over $1 mil-
lion in contributions, about
$1 million of which came from
Youngkin himself. The committee
McAuliffe set up in 2014, Common
Good VA, has raised about
$400,000 in 2021.
This month, McAuliffe pulled
out big-ticket connections, mak-
ing campaign stops with former
president B arack Obama and first
lady Jill Biden earlier this month,
and a campaign appearance in
Arlington with President Biden
Tuesday night. And Youngkin fo-
cused his campaign on education
issues, ramping up advertising on
the topic.
During October, McAuliffe
spent more than Youngkin, with
$18.8 million compared to Young-
kin’s $11 million. McAuliffe also
ended t he period with significant-
ly less cash on hand, which in-
cludes money carried over from
previous reporting periods. On
Oct. 21, McAuliffe had $1.9 millionin the bank and Youngkin had
$7.9 million, according to VPAP.
Third-party c andidate Princess
Blanding reported raising $4,550
for the period and ended with
$7,281 cash on hand.
The ballot also includes lieu-
tenant governor and attorney
general, a long with all 100 seats in
the House of Delegates, where
Democrats are defending a 55-to-
45 majority.
In the lieutenant governor’s
race, Del. Hala S. Ayala (D-Prince
William) raised $2.4 million dur-
ing the three-week period, up
from the just o ver $1.4 million she
collected in September. She ended
the reporting period with just
over $300,000 cash o n hand.
Republican Winsome E. Sears,
a former state delegate who repre-
sented Norfolk, brought in about
$600,000 during the first few
weeks of October and ended the
period with just over $80,000.
Incumbent Virginia Attorney
General Mark R. Herring (D) re-
ported raising about $1.5 million
during the p eriod and ended w ith
just over $200,000.
Republican challenger Jason S.
Miyares, a Virginia Beach del-
egate, reported raising about
$3.5 million during the period, up
from the just over $1.4 million he
raised in September. Miyares end-
ed the month with just over
$2 million. His t op donation came
from the Republican Attorneys
General Association at $2.1 mil-
lion.
The next filing deadline is set
for Dec. 2 and will detail money
raised and spent between Oct. 22
and Nov. 2 5.
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McAuliffe, Youngkin raise record amount of cash
Richard
Garrison had to
agree: The image
on the X-ray
screen did look
like a bomb. Not a
sophisticated
bomb, mind you,
but the sort of
classic, round,
light-the-fuse-
and-run bomb that Acme
supplied to Wile E. Coyote.
Richard was at Dulles Airport
in Virginia, returning from
overseas and connecting to a
flight to Nebraska. He explained
to the startled security officer
that it was a souvenir of his trip
to Africa: an empty ostrich egg.
“The shell was about 1/4-of-
an-inch thick and solid calcium,
hard enough to resist the jaws of
jackals and hyenas,” wrote
Richard, who lives in Arlington.
“After this marvel of nature was
examined, I was allowed to go on
my way, with the egg. I suspect
that the experience might have
contributed to a conversation
along the lines of, ‘You won’t
believe what I found in a bag
today.’ ”
You won’t believe what you’ll
find in today’s column: more
magnetometer moments!
When visiting his father in
Florida, Bowie’s Craig
Henderson toured a sugar cane
farm, where he was introduced
to the pleasure of chewing on
the raw cane.
“I wanted to bring some home
to people I thought would like it,
so my methodical father cut the
stalks into exactly equal lengths
of about eight inches and packed
them tightly together in Ziploc
bags,” wrote Craig.
No surprise that airport
security asked to examine Craig’s
bag, which looked as if it
contained a bundle of dynamite.
In 197 7, Peter Brunner’s
parents moved to California. At
the time, if was hard for his
mother to come by her favorite
brand of spaghetti: Buitoni. SoPeter bought 10 boxes of the
pasta and gift-wrapped them.
“When I got to Dulles Airport
and my luggage went through
the scanner, I was pulled aside
and asked about the wrapped
package,” wrote Peter, who lives
in Columbia.
You guessed it: It looked like
dynamite.
Peter unwrapped the package,
displayed the nonlethal pasta
and was allowed through.
Susan Meisner of Alexandria
says her mother-in-law’s real-
cream fudge is a “guaranteed
showstopper.” It’s also a security-
line stopper.
“Apparently a solid block of
fudge resembles another not-so-
benign substance,” Susan wrote.She was briefly stopped by
security at the Denver airport
when returning from a trip.
Susan now cuts the fudge into
pieces and puts it into checked
baggage.
On one of her trips, Arna
Cohen of Bowie came across a
specialty food store that devoted
an entire aisle to that most
acquired of tastes: black licorice.
Wrote Arna: “Score! My
husband and I love black licorice
— though he likes the horrible
salty stuff. I loaded up on a wide
variety and happily packed it in
my carry-on.”
Later, in the airport security
line, an agent poked around and
pulled out the bag of licorice.
“It’s licorice,” Arna said. “My
husband and I are fans.”
“Evidently,” came the reply.
Wrote Arna: “He replaced it in
my bag and sent me on my way.
All I can imagine is that it
looked like plastic explosives or
something on the X-ray.”
David Summers’s son, Dan,
got spoiled when the family lived
in Sweden. Every birthday was
celebrated with a
“princesstårta,” a confection of
whipped cream and raspberry
jam encased in a chartreuse
marzipan helmet.
“After we left Sweden, hisbirthdays were always tinged
with melancholy, because we
never could find marzipan of the
proper vivid shade,” wrote
David, who lives in Arlington.
“Dan was well into his 30s when
I made a trip to Sweden and
picked up a roll of princesstårta
marzipan, available in every
grocery store.”
And it was that sugary roll of
almond paste that got David
questioned before boarding his
connecting flight in
Copenhagen.
“I was taken aside, asked
about the contents of my bag,
then asked to open it as the staff
all took a step back,” he wrote.
“Smiles and laughter followed
when I produced the marzipan,
made in Denmark. It wasn’t a
plastic explosive after all, and
Dan celebrated his birthday with
the cake of his dreams that year.”
Joe Furgal’s mother’s
hometown is Monroe, Wis.
When he visits, he’s sure to
return with that town’s signature
product.
“Since this made-in-America
product is not easy to find in the
DMV area, I bring back several
packages every time I visit,”
wrote Joe, who lives in
Arlington.
It always raises suspicion,whether lighting up the X-ray
when stuffed inside his carry-on
or packed into his checked
luggage.
“If I put it in my suitcase, I
find a note saying that my
suitcase was opened by TSA,” Joe
wrote. “I now pack it separately
in a plastic bag and pull it out of
my carry-on and send it through
the X-ray by itself.”
That product? Limburger
cheese.
Lest you think only “foreign”
food raises suspicion, Margaret
O’Brien of Minneapolis was
stopped in Amsterdam while
traveling to the German family
hosting her daughter on a high
school exchange.
“I had a small carry-on that I
filled with one box of each flavor
of Girl Scout cookies to share,”
Margaret wrote. “The guard in
the Schiphol airport thought she
was seeing boxes of ammunition
in the scanner image and there
was a lot of excitement.”
Hey, I always get excited
about Samoas, myself.
Tomorrow: More
magnetometer moments.
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an ostrich egg and pasta. They ultimately continued their journeys.BY REBECCA TANMaryland’s most populous ju-
risdiction is weighing a new pro-
gram to provide direct cash pay-
ments to its neediest residents.
Inspired by the impact of the
federal government’s coronavirus
pandemic-era stimulus pay-
ments, Montgomery County
Council members Gabe Albornoz
(D-At Large) and Will Jawando
(D-At Large) introduced a propos-
al Tuesday that would give out
$800 monthly payments to 300
needy households, with no strings
attached. Council President Tom
Hucker (D-District 5) and County
Executive Marc Elrich (D) both
say they support the two-year pi-
lot program, which would be
funded by philanthropic groups
and the county government.
“We spend a lot of money giv-
ing out money... so this will be an
interesting experiment,” Elrich
said i n an interview Monday.
If adopted, Montgomery would
be the first county in Maryland to
formally t est the viability of “guar-
anteed income” — an increasingly
popular social welfare system
that advocates say is more effec-
tive than other measures in help-
ing recipients gain full-time em-
ployment a nd move off other gov-
ernment aid programs. Critics of
such programs often say that they
make it less likely for recipients to
find jobs, though recent research
suggests otherwise — a guaran-
teed-income pilot in Stockton,
Calif., helped recipients secure
full-time jobs at twice the rate of
people in a control group, accord-
ing to an independent study.
“We treat poverty in this coun-
try as a character flaw. We treat
hardship as a character flaw. It is
none of that,” Raymond Crowel,
head of Montgomery’s health and
human services department, said
in a news conference Tuesday. “It
is about the lack of resources to
make change in your life.”
Guaranteed-income pilot pro-
grams are being conducted in at
least 20 cities across the United
States. The Chicago City Council
votes this week on a $31 million
initiative proposed by Mayor Lori
Lightfoot (D) as part of her 2022
budget. Baltimore City has
formed a committee to design a
pilot program. And in Northern
Virginia, Arlington and Alexan-
dria announced earlier this
month that they would be experi-
menting with guaranteed in-
come.
“We’ve been educated in the
last four years of the success of
this program,” said Albornoz, ref-
erencing t he Stockton study. “A nd
we’re all anxious right now to try
something new, to really break
this cycle of poverty i n a way that’s
sustainable and meaningful.”
Montgomery officials first re-
ceived a briefing on guaranteed
income in 2019, around the time
when the concept of a universal
basic income, backed by Demo-
cratic presidential candidate An-
drew Yang, entered the national
stage. The county’s health andhuman services department was
researching ways to implement a
guaranteed-income pilot in
Montgomery when the coronavi-
rus arrived, sickening more than
82,000 county residents and caus-
ing significant economic hard-
ship in vulnerable communities.
The pandemic added urgency
to the push for more innovative,
more effective social welfare pro-
grams, Jawando said. The chal-
lenges that local governments, in-
cluding Montgomery, f aced in dis-
bursing federal aid buttressed the
argument for direct cash pay-
ments.
“Everyone has suffered in these
two years. Either you’ve seen the
assistance and it’s helped you, or
you’ve seen the need that is out
there,” Jawando said. “In a way,
it’s fortuitous that we’re trying
this now.”
Growing up in low-income
rental apartments in Long
Branch, Jawando said he saw —
and felt — the social stigma that
came with public assistance pro-
grams such as food stamps and
housing vouchers. He sees direct
cash payments as a way to help
low-income households retain
their dignity and independence
even as they work their way out of
poverty, he said.
The Rev. Ben Wikner, who
works with low-income residents
in Gaithersburg and Montgomery
Village, said he supports the idea
of guaranteed income but worries
that the pilot may detract from
existing aid programs in the coun-ty, such as the Earned Income Tax
Credit and the Working Families
Income Supplement, both of
which got a boost from lawmak-
ers earlier this year.
“When we create more and
more programs, it can have a
dilatory and distracting effect on
the good programs that already
exist,” said Wikner of Cross Com-
munity Church.
How the county would recruit
and select recipients for the pilot
has yet to be determined. Under
the council’s proposal, the first
year of the program, including
setting up a payment system,
would cost $3 million. One-third
would be funded by the
D.C.-based Meyer Foundation
and the remaining two-thirds
would be paid for by the county.
Recipients would have to be liv-
ing in the county, the proposal
says, and a designated number of
slots would go toward individu-
als and families l eaving homeless
shelters. The county would part-
ner with the Universities at
Shady Grove to evaluate the re-
sults of the program as it is rolled
out.
A public hearing on the pro-
posal is scheduled for Nov. 2.
Low-income households,
many of which have been left
behind by the country’s economic
recovery, are “exhausted and
overwhelmed” after 20 months
in the pandemic, Albornoz said.
“We just hope this can make
things easier for them.”
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Montgomery County may test g uaranteed income